the new roots album

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Permalink Reply by Hitch on June 24, 2010 at 12:21am

I need to keep up with all this. I'll check it, thanks

Permalink Reply by lyfenlyn on June 24, 2010 at 10:21am

The album....hmmmmm
on a scale of 1 to 10 I give it a generous 5. It sounds phoned in. 90% of the songs have the same structure, random hook singer, two verses. Most of the cuts were very lazy and mello. Not alot of grit or energy on this record. The last song Hustla has an interesting baby crying looped sample, which is the most interesting noise on the record. I hate John Legend with a passion so they lost major cool points for that. Lyrically not very cohesive, sounded like different mcs lyric books that got stolen on a high school field trip and peiced together. Black Thought is rhyming like a dad, you can hear him saying 'I can't say that in front of the kids.'

This is not an edgy record at all. It's background at best.

Permalink Reply by Kendrick Irvin on June 24, 2010 at 2:35pm

http://www.myspace.com/theroots/music/albums/how-i-got-over-16019281
This is the whole album. Lyfenlyn is right they dont have a lot diversity, if any.

Permalink Reply by Shannon Stone on June 29, 2010 at 8:59pm

the album is amazing!!

Permalink Reply by JamadianUK on June 30, 2010 at 7:46am

Not feeling it at all,sorry Roots not up to par at all. With all the stupid overrings in the genre at the moment, you would think the album would be better. Here in the UK, the magazines and papers are loving it,4-5 stars,whole page coverage and top reviews. But The Roots get love regardless out here.

I'll try not to download a copy from my poptastic loving mate, who sighs at the sight of ?questlove